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...imports--where other countries buy the copycat generics instead of the brand name--as a threat they are battling to wipe out. They feel that they alone should not have to pick up the tab for Africa. They want to stanch drug pirates who might make worthless fakes or flood drugs onto the black market. And they fear that making AIDS therapies cheaper for Africans will prompt lucrative Western markets to demand lower prices as well...
...Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region's criminal activity, supplying robbers in Johor Baharu, pirates preying on the cargo ships that chug through the narrow Strait...
...There's no reason to pair Ronald Reagan and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, except that they were born four years apart, long ago, in a different America, before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
Although Rudenstine's most important contribution may be the billowing $19 billion endowment, students should know they have a significant interest in who will take his post. Students ignore the selection process at their own peril and to the detriment of future classes. Instead, students should flood Massachusetts Hall with their concerns about undergraduate education and their recommendations for which candidate can best address them. They should be outraged at their exclusion from the selection process and should demand an explanation from Rudenstine. That a handshake at the first-years' President's Dance has been most students' sole interaction with...
...Staff writers Marc J. Ambinder, Edward B. Colby, David H. Gellis, David S. Stolzar and Joseph P. Flood contributed to the reporting of this story...